Laptops in the Lecture Hall 

Nov 20, 2003

The more than 500 physicians who attended the Vascular Interventional Advances Conference in October at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas...

IACC Starts Inspection Program 

Nov 20, 2003, Rayna Skolnik

The International Association of Conference Centers is launching a third-party facility-inspection program, IACC president Geoff Lawson announced last...

Farewell to an Industry Friend 

Nov 20, 2003

Gary Pugatch, director of resort marketing for the Sea Pines Co. on Hilton Head Island, died of a heart attack on Friday, November 7. He was 48. Prior...

APEX Forging Ahead 

Nov 20, 2003

The Convention Industry Council announced that it has unanimously approved accepted practices for the first two of the Accepted Practices Exchange initiatives:...

New Program Accredits Hotel Safety 

Nov 20, 2003

Since 9/11, planners have increasingly become aware of the potential for disaster during meetings, and the potentially disastrous legal issues that could...

Master Your Media Message 

Oct 3, 2003

When you first meet a reporter, find out as much as you can about what his/her needs are. Some like news releases, some don't. Many reporters don't mind...

PR Basics—Top Tools for Media Success 

Sep 25, 2003

Press registration Make it easy and free. You want to encourage journalists to come to your meeting. How else can they report on it? Media alert This...

Review Process for a MECC Educational Partner 

Sep 25, 2003

Review the MECC’s Educational Mission Is it compatible with your CME Mission? Does it use language consistent with educational organizations? Document...

MPI WEC: A New Age of Partnerships 

Sep 17, 2003

The theme was the dawning of a new age of Aquarius—think the buoyant musical "Hair" circa 1969—and the underlying message was partnerships and professionalism...

Women at the Negotiating Table 

Sep 17, 2003

With women comprising such a large percentage of the meeting planning world, a book to be published this October called Women Don’t Ask: Negotiation and...

From High-Tech to Healthcare 

Sep 17, 2003

DCI, which has been producing high-tech trade shows for the past 20 years, recently created a new subsidiary for the healthcare industry. According to...

Case Study: What Would You Do? 

Sep 17, 2003

You are the director of CME in an academic institution and have been asked by a communication company to collaborate on an a educational grant they had...

Hawaii Comes Through for ASAE 

Sep 17, 2003, Regina McGee

Attendance was not off as much as officials had feared at the annual meeting of the American Society of Association Executives, which was held last week...

Data Charts for the Gender CME Survey 

Jul 23, 2003

For additional data charts that did not appear in the print version of MM's July/August covery story, The Great Divide, about gender preferences for CME,...

SARS: The Impact of Medical Meetings 

Jul 21, 2003, By Megan Rowe

It’s hard to say what message the World Health Organization was trying to send when it had every participant at its spring annual assembly in Geneva submit...

Medical Meetings Has Moved! 

Jul 11, 2003

Visit us at our new site: mm.meetingsnet.com...

A Bridge to Quality 

Jul 3, 2003

Building on its series of reports and recommendations for improving the quality of healthcare, the Institute of Medicine, Washington, D.C., has released...

A Bridge to Quality 

Jul 3, 2003

Building on its series of reports and recommendations for improving the quality of healthcare, the Institute of Medicine, Washington, D.C., has released...

Telephone Triage 

Jul 3, 2003

Telenursing—in which nurses deliver, manage, and coordinate patient care and services via telecommunication technology—is one of the fastest growing areas...

Virtual Meetings: Start Thinking About it Now  

Jul 3, 2003

E-conferencing spiked immediately after the terrorist attacks of September 2001. And it continues to grow in popularity, but not necessarily because of...

Nursing Conventions on the Rise 

Jul 3, 2003

While the first half of 2003 wasn’t so great for some, several nursing association annual conventions said they’re doing just fine, thank you. For example,...

AMSN Starts Nurse Mentoring Program 

Jul 3, 2003

Nurses nurturing nurses—what sounds like a good idea recently became a reality when the Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses, Pitman, N.J., launched its...

Habla Medical History? 

Jul 3, 2003

Now that more than one in eight people in the United States are of Hispanic origin, according to the data from the 2002 U.S. Census, many physicians find...

How to Unplan a Meeting 

May 14, 2003, Jennifer Goodwin

As medical meeting planners, we take enormous pride in our ability to orchestrate complex meetings with perfect attention to the tiniest detail. But sometimes,...

CME Community Critiques New Standards 

May 12, 2003, Tamar Hosansky and Sue Pelletier

“As CME providers, we should be able to use the best and the brightest to develop educational content. If we are to disqualify these physicians based...

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